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| 23 | <h1 class="title topictitle1">Prerequisite software</h1>
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| 26 | <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">The prerequisite software that the DITA-OT requires depends on the type of distribution
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| 27 | package that you intend to install and the types of transformations that you want to
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| 28 | use.</p>
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| 30 | <div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Software required for core DITA-OT processing</h2>
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| 32 | <div class="p">The DITA-OT requires the following software applications:<dl class="dl">
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| 34 | <dt class="dt dlterm">JRE or JDK, version <span class="keyword">6</span> or later</dt>
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| 36 | <dd class="dd">Provides the basic environment for the DITA-OT. You can download the Oracle JRE or
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| 37 | JDK from <a class="xref" href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html</a>. If you opt to use the full-easy-install
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| 38 | package, this is the <em class="ph i">only</em> prerequisite software that you need to install.</dd>
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| 42 | <dt class="dt dlterm"><a name="prerequisite-software__antbuild"><!-- --></a>Ant, version <span class="keyword">1.7.1</span> or later</dt>
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| 44 | <dd class="dd">Provides the standard setup and sequencing of processing steps. You can download Ant
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| 45 | from <a class="xref" href="http://ant.apache.org/" target="_blank">http://ant.apache.org/</a>.</dd>
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| 49 | <dt class="dt dlterm">XSLT processor</dt>
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| 51 | <dd class="dd">Provides the main transformation services. It must be compliant with XSLT 1.0. The
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| 52 | DITA-OT is tested with both Saxon and Xalan-J. You can download Saxon, version
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| 53 | <span class="keyword">9.1</span> from <a class="xref" href="http://saxon.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://saxon.sourceforge.net/</a> and
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| 54 | Xalan-J, version <span class="keyword">2.7.1</span> or later from <a class="xref" href="http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/downloads.html" target="_blank">http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/downloads.html</a>.</dd>
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| 62 | <div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Software required for specific transformations</h2>
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| 64 | <div class="p">Depending on the type of output that you want to generate, you might need the following applications:<dl class="dl">
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| 66 | <dt class="dt dlterm">ICU for Java</dt>
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| 68 | <dd class="dd">ICU for Java is a
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| 69 | cross-platform, Unicode-based, globalization library. It includes support for
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| 70 | comparing locale-sensitive strings; formatting dates, times, numbers, currencies, and
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| 71 | messages; detecting text boundaries; and converting character sets. You can download
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| 72 | ICU for Java from <a class="xref" href="http://www.icu-project.org/download/" target="_blank">http://www.icu-project.org/download/</a>.</dd>
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| 76 | <dt class="dt dlterm">Microsoft Help Workshop</dt>
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| 78 | <dd class="dd">Required for generating HTML help. You can download the Help Workshop from <a class="xref" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms669985%28v=vs.85%29.aspx" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms669985%28v=vs.85%29.aspx</a>.</dd>
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| 82 | <dt class="dt dlterm">XSL-FO processor</dt>
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| 84 | <dd class="dd">Required for generating PDF output. You can download FOP from <a class="xref" href="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html" target="_blank">http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html</a>; you also can use Antenna House Formatter or RenderX.</dd>
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| 90 | <p class="p">See <a class="xref" href="DITA-tested.html" title="The DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) has been tested against certain versions of Ant, ICU for Java, JDK, operating systems, XML parsers, and XSLT processors.">Tested platforms and tools</a> for detailed information
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| 91 | about versions of the prerequisite applications that have been tested with the current
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| 92 | DITA-OT release.</p>
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| 100 | <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../readme/DITA-installation.html" title="You can install the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) on Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. The process for installing and setting up the DITA-OT depends on the type of distribution package that you select.">Installing the DITA Open Toolkit</a></div>
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